Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War.(Brief article)(Book review)

Contemporary Review | September 22, 2008 | Copyright

Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War. Patrick Wright. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. xvii + 488 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-923150-8. Prof. Wright is concerned with the 'iron curtain' both as a metaphor and a political reality. The political reality that concerns him is largely based on individuals, remembered and forgotten, who were caught up in the fraught world of splintering relations between hostile powers. After an extended introduction into the term's use by Churchill in 1946 (the OED traces the term back to 1794 when it was a form of theatrical ...

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